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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1909
Page
2
Free pamphlet from the State Health Department outlines causes and prevention of typhoid fever. It warns that discharges from patients carry millions of germs and must be disinfected, with strict room control, hygiene, and continued precautions for six weeks after recovery.
Hagerstown baseball squad arrived at noon for a locals game at the park this afternoon. Intense rivalry with a large crowd on hand when the game was called.
An advertisement claims Foley's Orino Laxative benefits for stomach and liver issues and habitual constipation. It asserts the product sweetens the stomach and breath and regulates the bowels, touting it as superior to pills and ordinary laxatives. Franck Baker & Co.
Mrs. John Zeigler returned to Ardmore Pennsylvania today after visiting a German Smith at her home on Armont Avenue.
Wheat rose from 98 cents to $1 per bushel today in the local market. Receipts were not above average in quantity or quality. Prices for butter eggs and chickens were also recorded with wholesale quotations for hay and lard noted.
A Times Dispatch report suggests the current holder is an almost assured winner with likely no opposition from either party, signaling a smooth path to retain the honor.
In Highview Virginia on August 16 reports note Garland Morris returning to Martinsburg after a week with his parents A and Mrs Morris. Margaret McCurdy and Nettie Johnson traveled to Newport for a Christian central conference. Ed Garden and family attended a Capon Springs tournament Thursday. A large Christian Church festival drew crowds Friday and Saturday. Minnie Morris hosted a gathering for Miss Braithwaite of Albin with Mountain View Band. Will McCurdy plans to move to the Dunlap property near Jericho. Oza Morris of Hagerstown visited relatives. Beal Garvin and Maggie Eaton went to Capon Bridge Thursday.
Reliance Virginia notes report Mrs Ira K Gruver improved after two weeks illness. Little Thelma Beaty remains very ill. Prof W R Kline spent days at Purcellville camp. Mrs B H Gruver and family returned from Washington. Mrs Shearer and Mrs Kern visited Mrs Ira K Gruver. J C Beaty attends Christian Church conference at Mt Zion. Rev J C S Myers active at Rinker's Grove camp. Miss Mainie Mauck visiting sister Mrs J E Showalter. Misses Bessie and Theresa Mitchell guests of Miss Clara Woods. A A Steele, clerk of several congressional committees, vacationing with mother Mrs D E Steele.
List of letters remaining for week ending August 14 1909. Callers must pay one cent per letter received. Names include Ash George Coper Mr., Lavender Lucy, Ritter Charles M., Robinson Thornton, Taylor Emily, Zeiler J Dean, Bentley Kern P M.
Mr and Mrs H M Turner of Shepherdstown West Virginia announce the engagement of their daughter Miss Loraine Turner to Dr Nathaniel Burwell a Clarke County Virginia native and practicing physician of Shepherdstown The wedding will take place in October.
The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin was observed in all Catholic churches yesterday with services and processions.
Advertisement urges people with kidney or bladder trouble to start taking Foley's Kidney Comedy to stop pain and irregularities, strengthen the organs, and avoid Bright's disease. Franck Raker & Son endorse the remedy.
Isaac Miller and wife of Cedar Grove visited S J Adams in Whitacre and planned a Bloomery trade with W C Payne. Roswell Smith of Paw Paw West Virginia stayed with friends. Elmer Whitacre traveled to Winchester. FE Brannon lost a cow recently. Plastering and painting begin next week on the Primitive Baptist Church nearby.
The United Brethren Church releases a revised discipline with a history of origin doctrine constitution and rules governing the church. The new discipline replaces the old one no longer official following changes at the recent general conference.
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